Awards & Recognitions

The Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts gives out four awards. Three of them—the Berlyne, Arnheim, and Barron Awards—are open to nominations and given annually. The fourth—the Farnsworth outstanding service award—is not given every year and is awarded at the Award Committee’s discretion.

Berlyne Award

The Division presents the Berlyne Award in recognition of outstanding research by a junior scholar. The award is named in honor of Daniel E. Berlyne, who served as president of Division 10 from 1974-1975. Dr. Berlyne, who conducted landmark research on the psychology of aesthetics and wrote the touchstone book Aesthetics and Psychobiology, died at the age of 52 in 1976.

In reviewing the history of Division 10, past presidents Cupchik, Arnheim, and Martindale noted, “The research that emerged from [Berlyne’s] laboratory represented the zenith of classical experimental aesthetics in the twentieth century and inspired a generation of scholars.”

John Baer, 1992

Linda Hamilton, 1993

Dennis Brophy, 1996

Gregory Feist, 2000

Todd Lubart, 2001

Jonathan Plucker, 2001

Elena Grigorenko, 2002

Joseph Kasof, 2002

James Kaufman, 2003

Helmut Leder, 2004

Oshin Vartanian, 2005

Paul Silvia, 2006

Aaron Kozbelt, 2007

Igor Uricevic, 2007

Ronald A. Beghetto, 2008

Kyung Hee Kim, 2009

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, 2010

Liana Gabora, 2011

Scott Barry Kaufman, 2012

Zorana Ivcevic, 2014

Pablo Tinio, 2014

Mathias Benedek, 2015

Jen Katz-Buonincontro, 2016

Thalia Goldstein, 2016

Baptiste Barbot, 2017

Marcos Nadal, 2017

Jennifer Drake, 2018

Vlad Glăveanu, 2018

Arnheim Award

Our Executive Committee also requests nominations for the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology and the Arts. The recipient presents the Arnheim address at the annual APA Convention, and it is subsequently published in the Division Bulletin.

The award is named in honor of Rudolf Arnheim, who served as Division 10 president three times (1957-1958, 1965-1966, 1970-1971). The award for outstanding achievement was renamed for Dr. Arnheim after he received the inaugural award in 1990.

Rudolf Arnheim, 1990

Julian Hochberg, 1992

Howard Gruber, 1993

Ravenna Helson, 1995

Frank Barron, 1996

Dean Keith Simonton, 1997

Colin Martindale, 1998

Irving Child, 1999

Ellen Winner, 2000

John Kennedy, 2001

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 2002

Claire Golomb, 2003

Diana Deutsch, 2004

Robert Sternberg, 2005

Paul Locher, 2007

Jerome Singer, 2008

Ruth Richards, 2009

Gerald Cupchik, 2010

Jeffrey Smith, 2011

Jonathan A. Plucker, 2012

Lisa F. Smith, 2013

Thomas B. Ward, 2014

Sandra Russ, 2015

Anjan Chatterjee, 2016

James C. Kaufman, 2017

Ronald Beghetto, 2018

Barron Award

Created in 2006, this award honors superior contributions to the psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts by students. The award honors notable creativity researcher Frank X. Barron.

Michelle Hilscher, 2007

Scott Barry Kaufman, 2008

C. Boyd Hegarty, 2009

Thalia Goldstein, 2010

Valorie Salimpoor, 2011

Pablo Tinio, 2011

Darya L. Zabelina, 2012

Rodica Damian, 2013

Marie Forgeard, 2013

Ben Wigert, 2014

Roger Beaty, 2015

Emily Nusbaum, 2015

Sue Hyeon Paek, 2017

Christa Taylor, 2018

Farnsworth Award

This award honors outstanding service to the division. It is named in honor of Paul Farnsworth, the first president of Division 10 (1945-1949).

The Farnsworth Award is not an annual award and is given at the discretion of the Awards Committee.

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The Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (Division 10 of the American Psychological Association) is committed to interdisciplinary scholarship, both theoretical and empirical, encompassing the visual, literary, and performing arts.